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Helen Frankenthaler Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Helen Frankenthaler available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Guggenheim Berlin
This space is now closed, but some information about past exhibitions remains online
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Canal, 1963
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Savage Breeze, 1974
(In the "Woodcut" section)
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Info about the 2005 exhibition, Against the Grain: The Woodcuts of Helen Frankenthaler
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Works from the Kenneth Tyler Collection of international prints
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Helen Frankenthaler at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
Canyon, 1965
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina
Captain's Watch, 1986
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
(Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive, California
Before the Caves
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
(Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)
Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin
Pistachio, 1971
Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin
Savage Breeze, 1974
Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences, Charleston, West Virginia
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, New York
Flash slideshow; Click "Works on Paper" and navigate to work #17
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Monoscape, 1969
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Coral Wedge, 1972
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Museum of the National Academy of Design, New York City
Causeway, 2001
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
Biography of the artist
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Untitled, 1982
Palm Springs Desert Museum, California
Carousel, 1979
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
Click on "View objects by this artist"
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
University Art Museum, Albany, New York
Crossing the Threshold: Thirty-Two Women Artists
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Mother Goose Melody, 1959
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Helen Frankenthaler at The Artchive
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
PBase Photo Sharing
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
Winter Hunt, 1958
University of Michigan Fine Art Slides
Around the Clock with Red
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Art Collection of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Virginia
Filming, 1972 (you may need to scroll down to see the link)
Gihon Foundation
White Makes Four, 1966
Repository of Abstract Art
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Helen Frankenthaler 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
Yoruba, 2002
artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
Frankenthaler: New Paintings
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Biography only
The Art Story
The New York Observer
"Gaga Over Guggenheim's Frankenthaler Exhibition", article by Hilton Kramer
The Village Voice
"Color Field revisited, via Frankenthaler", 1998 article by Peter Schjeldahl (via Artnet)
The Washington Post
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
look inside
Frankenthaler: Works on Paper 1949-1984
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Frankenthaler: A Catalogue Raisonné
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